Unais Abdullah

Unais Abdullah (12 January 1975-5 February 2014) was a leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) during the Malian Civil War.

Biography
Unais Abdullah was born in 1975 in Kidal, Mali to a family of Sunni Muslim Tuaregs. Abdullah joined al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) during the Malian Civil War, hoping to establish sharia law in the Maghreb. He was involved in attacks against the Malian government, and he became a wanted person by the United Nations and the Malian government. On 5 February 2014 he was killed in a French Air Force airstrike in Tessalit.